“I am rebelling against imprisonment, I am rebelling against tyranny of the mind, I am rebelling against a collection of machines with interchangeable faces. Above all, I am rebelling against my own ignorance and your deliberate deception.”Edmund Cooper The Overman Culture (1971)
“Historically, the developement of machines had amplified man's ability to destroy.”Edmund Cooper The cloud walker (1973)
“For mankind may survive and live without machines, and still be civilised. But without compassion, the human race can only elaborate upon the futile cunning and the barren intelligence of the great apes.”Edmund Cooper book Seed of LightSeed of Light (1959)